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Somethimes when buying secondhand, you get an accessory or two thrown in as a freebie. This week I bought a Fender starcaster bass which was listed as coming with a case. I expected a ratty gigbag, but it actually came with a (very slightly tatty but fully intact) epiphone Jack Casady hard case. Also included was a very nice worn-in Gibson 'modern vintage' black leather strap and a set of schaller strap locks (not copies). The strap goes for £58 new from gibson and might be . I'm not a fan of schaller strap locks and have ordered a set of gotoh fender-style buttons to go on the bass to be used with grolsch-style rubbery strap blocks, but the schallers should be worth the price of a few pints if I sell them. A nice bargain came from Cash converters where my black epiphone vintage pro thunderbird eventually only set me back about £100 once I had sold the humongous heavy duty aluminium flight case that came with it.

On a moderate budget, and fairly easy to obtain, I’d recommend the MXR that you highlighted, or the EBS Unichorus. If you want to spend a bit more, or don’t mind importing, the Providence Anadime Bass Chorus (make sure you get the bass version) is amazing, as is the Horrothia Type One.

Bought a vocoder off Paul, super smooth transaction, great comms throughout and it was well packaged and delivered promptly. Lovely bit of kit as well, cheers Paul!

Bought a BK7 from Andy, fantastic comms, pedal turned up promptly in great packaging and it's a fantastic bit of kit in pretty much mint condition. Cheers Andy!

By the late herbie flowers. Set to record

Been enjoying this album. Only became aware of her by accident when a CD I bought mistakenly has one of her albums printed on it as opposed to the one I bought.

Home straight… Bottom block fixed, bass bar reinforced, top going on. Slowly one step at a time. Leave it like this for 24hrs. Finish off tomorrow.

For the record, I didn't remove the top of the guitar, worked from the outside of the ... side with a router (I like the neat work you get with this tool) and a template, then glued the rosace in and that was it. Not that difficult if you work slowly and accurately, Chris.

Ha ha! Dr King is ready for you now… (evil cackle, snap of latex gloves etc)

Give @PaulKing a prod ... he'll get the top off for you in no time at all.

Would they? Gimmie all your loving is pretty well one note all the way through (ok, yes, its 3 one note riffs) I would imagine almost noone who wasn't a bass player could recognise that song from the bass line. Maybe 'Take a walk on the wild side'.

I've used an EHX Bass Clone for years and like it. You can boost the lows with the eq on it and the crossover can help too. The Source Audio Gemini may also be worth a look as it has so many types of chorus built in to it

Raz (Yavor) bought my WT550. Excellent comms. The usual up-front and sent to his requested address in Dartford. Would sell to him again.

Got the bass and it was in as new condition. The bags are still on the tuners and film on the pickguard. Yay! The fit and finish are exceptional, the neck is a thing of beauty - reminded me of the Charvel necks everybody used to rave about. I actually quite like the colour, it is an unusual green but perfectly complements the darker colour of the neck. The preamp and eq are working perfectly as per the review above and you can get some positively thunderous tones out of the thing. It is perfect apart from the neck dive which when seated, is probably up there with the worst of any bass I've ever owned. Such a shame. Definitely worth what I paid for it but it could have been a 10/10.

And this as well!

I've snagged some tickets for the tour and will be seeing them in Hertford in January. This video popped up on my FB feed and i thought it was quite interesting 🙂

A week ago now but I played my first overseas gig in Germany at a small doom festival in Leonberg, with Gévaudan. Really really cool vibe, promoters really looked after all the bands and the crowd were ace both whilst on stage and hanging out during the before and after. we played pretty well and the sound was clear and mainly on point on stage. Good times and lots learned. Felt like a very different approach to love music on the continent.

They are a standard diy item for wall painting.